AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME).

Experiences sur la Rarefaction de L'Air.

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1705". Pp. 119-124.

First appearance of an important paper on the way to determinate absolute zero temperature. Amontons reports here on some phenomena he had observed while studying the proper way to calibrate his own air thermometer.

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